It is hardly ever the small-town baker who goes to church, pays his taxes and plays on the Rotary softball team that inspires people to shove their neighbors toward large pits behind the barrel of a gun. Where humanistic, self-aggrandizement is the norm, the small-town baker is made to kneel before the pit. TL Davis

Tuesday, July 22, 2014

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida or Something Like That

If you thought the Garden of Eden was somewhere in the Middle East,
guess again. It was in Bristol Florida all this time … or so the story
goes. According to Baptist preacher Elvy E. Callaway, Bristol is the
home town of Adam and Eve. As farfetched as this may sound, Rev.
Callaway may have been on to something.

In the 1950s, Callaway discovered a significant number of features in
Bristol that matched the Bible’s description of the Garden of Eden. He
pointed out that Genesis 2:10 states "a river went out of Eden to water
the garden; and from hence it was parted, and became into four heads."
That matches the description of the Apalachicola River, which splits
into four rivers. The Reverend claimed that only two rivers in the
world fit the Bible’s description: the Apalachicola, and one in Siberia
(where it’s obviously too cold for the Garden of Eden!) Callaway also
identified 28 species of trees mentioned in the Bible, trees that are
found very few other places in the entire world.

The rest of the article is at the link.

Of course, few men my age can think of "Eden" without thinking of Barbara: